Wednesday, April 25, 2012

1. Find a job:TwitJobSeach – TwitJobSearch pulls up Tweets that are only job-related and links to the underlying job posting.

TweetMyJobs – the largest Twitter job board in the world. It has 9,537 targeted job channels with open positions from 12,459 companies worldwide. You can post (and tweet) your resume and custom profile to thousands of recruiters and hiring managers.

2. Check your follows/find people:Friend or Follow – Who’s not following you back on Twitter? Who are you not following back? Who are your mutual friends?

3. Tweet in another language:TweetTranslate automatically translate tweets into over 40 languages.

That led me to his other projects, all of them remarkable. However, one video in particular, had the wow factor: "Everything is a Remix Part 3: the role of remixing creativity," (especially as it applies to technology.)

In part three of his series, Kirby argues that all new innovations in technology occur in one of the following ways: first we copy others, then we transform what others did, and finally we combine different ideas. Combining different ideas leads to further breakthroughs, but the biggest innovations occurs when we copy, transform AND combine, as happened with the Apple personal computer.

There was a link inside the last few lines of the Post article: "Much like last week’s renewed interest in an ex-slave’s 1865 letter to his master, the response to Landmesser’s photographic lesson speaks to an Internet audience hungry for stories of moral heroism," which sent me over to a blog called "Letters of Note."

After I read the remarkable letter from the ex-slave, that's where I stayed.Letters of Note - correspondence deserving of a wider audience.

There are 661 letters cataloged in the blog's archive. Some of the best will soon be published in a book.

To Jakob Schapiro, my maternal grand-father who died in 1942. He was a pioneer in the automobile industry who once owned 40% of Benz & Cie, (which eventually became Mercedes Benz.) Not only can I read about him in German Wikipedia, but I discovered that one of the companies he owned made the chassis of an early Rolls Royce. The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Shapiro-Schebera Skiff bears his name. One beautifully restored version was recently put up for auction, asking $1.2 million. He is remembered.

Finally, to George London, my father, famed opera singer. He is everywhere on the Internet, on YouTube, in books sold on Amazon, in the website for the foundation he created, and just this past year, in a documentary film. He is remembered.Thank U Internet - it's personal.